Nerd Lunch Extra Helping | Temple of Doom, The B-Side

Nerd Lunch episode 247 had been a fairly negative discussion of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, but Pax wasn't able to be involved and wanted to offer an alternate opinion. To that end, he assembled a different panel that included Rob, John Vanover, and a new guest named Brad (aka FijiMermaid). 

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Nerd Lunch 248 | Celebrating 75 Years of Wonder Woman

CT and Pax welcomed Stacey Rader and Michael to talk about Wonder Woman and celebrate her 75th birthday. We discussed our first encounters with her and how we continued to follow her adventures with our favorite stories, villains, artists, and more. We also looked at her complexity and why that’s made her challenging to translate into other media over the years.

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Nerd Lunch 241 | Star Trek III Drill Down

As the finale in Nerd Lunch's month-long series of episodes focusing on Star Trek, Pax and CT welcomed back Rob as well as John Vanover to search for answers in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. Just how old is the Enterprise? Why are the Grissom’s cushions pink? And just how pon farr did Saavik have to go with Spock?

Also, this is like the third time Rob had to answer one of Michael's Fourth Chair Carryover Questions.

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Nerd Lunch 240 | Q Are Cordially Invited to a Drilldown

As part of a month of Star Trek episodes, Nerd Lunch sat down with Michael to discuss the character Q. They discussed their first exposure to him, thoughts on him as a plot device, favorite episodes with him, and whether he should be brought back for the new Trek show.

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Nerd Lunch 233 | Down the Rabbit Hole 4 (Star Wars Edition)

Nerd Lunch's "Down the Rabbit Hole" topic always had Jeff Somogyi join the gang to pick a couple of Wikipedia pages and try to follow links from one to the other in a limited number of clicks. In this one, they set course for Wookieepedia instead and invited Michael and Kay from the Star Wars panel to tag along, trying to get from Jessa Vandangante to Pilk Mukmuk in the span of the show.

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Nerd Lunch 214 | Undeserving TV Revivals

Michael completed a four-week Nerd Lunch tour and the fellas made his dream come true by allowing him to co-guest with William Bruce West. In the spirit of Fuller House, Girl Meets World, and Coach, we came up with ideas for TV show revivals, bringing back Magnum PI, Blacke’s Magic, Small Wonder, Amen, and Murphy Brown.

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Nerd Lunch 213 | Nerdstradamus 2016

In accordance with tradition, Nerd Lunch began 2016 with their yearly crop of predictions. After recapping their 2015 prognostications and the results of the Force Awakens Overs and Unders, the crew and Michael predicted the year to come in the realms of TV, fast food, and more. Plus, they teed up Star Trek Beyond Overs and Unders.

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Nerd Lunch 212 | Star Wars The Force Awakens Drill Down

Michael and Kay returned to Nerd Lunch to discuss Star Wars: The Force Awakens. We talked about how many times we’d watched it, what we liked, what we didn’t, and speculated about what could be coming in future movies.

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